Modern Masters
Open one box and you'll get $544.32 of cards, on average. We don't hold a current list price for this product, so there is nothing to compare against — put in what a sealed box actually costs you below.
Cards inside
$544.32
Everything in the box, at today's prices
If you sold them
$267.48
After fees, postage and bulk rates
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated August 29, 2026
This is an average. A few very expensive cards pull it upward, so most individual boxes land below it. Opening one box is closer to a lottery ticket than an investment — the number below tells you whether the lottery is priced fairly.
$544.32 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$544.32
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$267.48
About 49% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
26%
Cards worth more by the thousand than listed
Two things separate the two figures. Fees take 10.75% commission plus 2.5% and $0.30 on every order, and postage on a single card runs about $1.10 — a bite a cheap card cannot absorb. And 26% of the box's value sits in cards below roughly $1.66, the point where a card is worth more thrown into a bulk lot at $0.04 a rare than listed, packed and posted. Selling the whole box to a buylist in one go pays less again.
Assumes one card per order, which is the cautious reading — a buyer taking several cards at once splits the fixed costs between them. Fees are TCGplayer Marketplace rates as of February 2026; bulk rates are current cash buylist.
We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.
+$0.32
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $544 a box you'd come out about $0.32 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$544.32
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
Every pack has a few fixed positions — a guaranteed rare, a wildcard, a foil. Here's what each one is worth across the whole box.
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$5.97
Whole box
$214.92
$146.88 kept
Share
39%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$4.01
Whole box
$144.36
$29.52 kept
Share
27%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.74
Whole box
$98.64
$37.80 kept
Share
18%
Guaranteed foil
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.40
Whole box
$86.40
$53.28 kept
Share
16%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
City of Brass
$77.28
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Sword of Fire and Ice
$69.00
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Angel's Grace
$55.06
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
$41.30
Pact of Negation
$39.82
Arcbound Ravager
$38.99
Kokusho, the Evening Star
$38.84
Doubling Season
$36.08
Paradise Mantle
$34.97
Sword of Light and Shadow
$32.45
68 cards. “Copies per box” is how many of that exact card you'd expect from one box on average — under 1 means you usually won't see it at all.
| Sword of Fire and Ice | mythic | $50.23 | 0.32 |
| Doubling Season | rare | $35.85 | 0.64 |
| Kokusho, the Evening Star | mythic | $27.38 | 0.32 |
| City of Brass | rare | $20.55 | 0.64 |
| Arcbound Ravager | rare | $19.84 | 0.64 |
| Pact of Negation | rare | $19.43 | 0.64 |
| Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | rare | $19.05 | 0.64 |
| Chalice of the Void | rare | $16.05 | 0.64 |
| Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker | mythic | $14.57 | 0.32 |
| Scion of Oona | rare | $13.26 | 0.64 |
| Sword of Light and Shadow | mythic | $12.80 | 0.32 |
| Glen Elendra Archmage | rare | $10.84 | 0.64 |
| Academy Ruins | rare | $9.92 | 0.64 |
| Progenitus | mythic | $9.11 | 0.32 |
| Elspeth, Knight-Errant | mythic | $9.08 | 0.32 |
| Stonehewer Giant | rare | $8.54 | 0.64 |
| Vedalken Shackles | mythic | $8.43 | 0.32 |
| Blood Moon | rare | $8.17 | 0.64 |
| Tarmogoyf | mythic | $7.69 | 0.32 |
| Angel's Grace | rare | $7.52 | 0.64 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
